Breakdown limit studies in high-rate gaseous detectors

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 422, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 300-304

  Ivaniouchenkov, Yu ^a   Fonte, P ^a   Peskov, V ^b   Ramsey, B D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakdown limits; CAT; GEM; High rate gaseous detectors; MICROMEGAS

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000776802     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(98)00962-0     Document Type: Article

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